HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Dr. Iqbal Memon, the father of Discovery Middle School shooter Hammad Memon, is scheduled for a plea hearing next week in the hindering prosecution case against him.

Memon, an Athens pediatrician, is charged with aiding his wife and son's efforts to flee prosecution before Hammad Memon's scheduled 2012 trial for murder in the shooting death of his classmate Todd Brown in February 2010. Brown and Hammad Memon were both 14 at the time of the shooting in a crowded hallway at the Madison middle school.

Hammad Memon pleaded guilty last year to murder and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Memon's mother, Safia, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of attempting to hinder prosecution and received a one-year suspended sentence and a $6,000 fine.

Dr. Memon went to trial on the hindering prosecution charge in April. His wife testified the effort to flee and take Hammad to Pakistan was her idea and that her husband was unaware of her plans.

The jury in the case deadlocked and could not reach a verdict after nearly two days of deliberation. The case was set to be retried in September.

According to court records, a plea hearing is set for Aug. 5, though no details of the charge are included in the court record.